WIKI – Shadow1 Julie Henderson, Contributor Waking Times Not only is another world possible; she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing. – Arundhati Roy This is a statement that I’m sending to document the fact that I am a survivor of ongoing […]

​Denver Post Goes All In For Pot S With the legalization of the sale of marijuana coming into effect in Colorado on January 1st, everyone in the Centennial State has been getting ready for the bloodshot eyes of the nation to be on them. In that spirit, the Denver […]

In his latest book, “Self Comes to Mind,” Dr. Antonio Damasio, director of the Brain and Creativity Institute at USC, defines consciousness as, “the ability that we have to look out on the world and grasp it. It is a way evolution found to increase our effectiveness in dealing […]

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New Statesman Consciousness is one of the great mysteries of science – perhaps the greatest mystery. We all know we have it, when we think, when we dream, when we savour tastes and aromas, when we hear a great symphony, when we fall in love: it is surely the […]

The second annual Breakthrough Energy Movement event held in Boulder, Colorado this past weekend was what some might call a conference for spirit scientists. I don’t personally consider myself a scientist but I have a passion for ecology, technology and spirituality and “Global BEM” as one of the Dutch founders, Jeroen van Straaten calls the […]

via Vigilant Citizen The 2013 edition of the VMAs was not about music. It wasn’t even about the symbolism I’ve described in past years. It was basically MTV saying: “There is nothing to celebrate in pop music this year, here’s an awkward, cringe-worthy display of everything that is wrong in the entertainment industry”. I’ve written […]

Prison isolation is torture, and America, like many other things is the biggest proponent of it. via Wired In the largest prison protest in California’s history, nearly 30,000 inmates have gone on hunger strike. Their main grievance: the state’s use of solitary confinement, in which prisoners are held for […]